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"tombstone": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (recto), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim(?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 1999.136.a",
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"title": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (recto)",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
"collection": "MED - Manuscript Illuminations",
"type": "Manuscript",
"measurements": "Each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.)",
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"title": "The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations",
"description": "The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).",
"opening_date": "1999-12-19T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 67, illus. p. 69.",
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"description": "Main gallery rotation (Gallery 113): January 26, 2015 -",
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"description": "Arms of Mansfeld (16th century), Prussia, between Magdeburg and Merseburg; Compte d'Aspremont-Lynden (19th century); [Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1987, lot 99]; [J\u00f6rn G\u00fcnther, Hamburg]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]",
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"id": 164661,
"description": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eating Grapes (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1524. North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2006.15",
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{
"id": 169756,
"description": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2011.67",
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"description": "This leaf and the one nearby were excised from the same prayer book. They reveal the favored secular motifs that include decorations with animals, peasants, and domestic activities such as cooking. Here a woman is shown kneading bread. A composite text combining features of a psalter, a collection of psalms or religious verses, and a prayer book, it was used during Mass and other services. The original book was a highly personalized volume written and illuminated in or around the city of Hildesheim in Northern Germany, as suggested by the prominent inclusion of Saint Godehard, Bishop of Hildesheim (died 1038), in the calendar (not shown).",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 69, cat. no. 67",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n81"
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"Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (Text: Deus q[uonia]m beatam mariam virginem in templum tuum [God, since the Blessed Virgin Mary is your temple] Office of the Conception of the Virgin)",
"Ornamental Borders with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread: Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook",
"Three Leaves from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Carnations, a Thistle, and a Cook Ladling Soup \r\n"
],
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